I just learned that 13.2 came with MATE included, so I wanted to try it
out. I marked the MATE desktop and main patterns and installed them in
to my virtual test install (vmplayer).
Bazinga!
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-
The panel encountered a problem while loading
“GNOMEMainMenuFactory::GNOMEMainMenu”.
Do you want to delete the applet from your configuration?
—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-
Don’t “delete” results in no menu. I kill it (ctrol-alt-bckspace twice),
then try again with “delete”.
There is no menu, no way to do anything. I had to add it from “add
applet”. Then I had to fight my way to have the applets in place,
because the defaults were badly sized.
Some of the icons look uglier than in xfce. I see few differences. The
file browsers seems adequate.
I have to test it a bit more… I have not used gnome since they made it
version 3. This looks similar to gnome 2, I guess, but so does xfce and
I’m used to it by now…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Fortunately, you didn’t run into the “infinite caja” problem.
Once you get it set up, it seems to be a nice and usable desktop. Whether it is better than XFCE – that, you would have to decide for yourself. Given that choice, I would probably go with XFCE. But I can see some folk going the other way.
However, I’ll stick to KDE for the present (except when experimenting with other desktops).
It really is GNOME 2. It’s like stepping back in time but having everything brought up to date - is that an oxymoron - so that a desktop environment so many people loved can continue to better use it on newer equipment.
Sure I had some trouble with it initally but it’s fine now. **robin_listas *I hope you try it for more than a few days to better get the feel for it and I’m saying that as a long-time user of Xfce too. If you haven’t seen it yet, look here http://mate-desktop.org/ for more information.
Subjectively I feel it’s as smooth as and as fast as Xfce if not more so - granted my laptop, a 2012 ASUS U36SG-AS71 is overkill for either Xfce or MATE. Have fun.
Hi,
Long time xfce openSUSE user here.
Why not try Gnome 3. For the first time I tried it and loving it.
Kinda slick om my machine. Only problem I encountered so far is garbled screen coming from suspend
which quickly address by Malcolmlewis on my thread. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/503288-Gnome-Question
I only use this machine for drawing and surfing this forum so installation of DE here is kinda limited to its use.
Hi,
Long time xfce openSUSE user here.
Why not try Gnome 3. For the first time I tried it and loving it.
Kinda slick om my machine. Only problem I encountered so far is garbled screen coming from suspend
which quickly address by Malcolmlewis on my thread. https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/503288-Gnome-Question
I only use this machine for drawing and surfing this forum so installation of DE here is kinda limited to its use.
> Hi,
> Long time xfce openSUSE user here.
> Why not try Gnome 3.
Because I can not stand it.
I’ve been a gnome user since ever, version 1 or 2, I don’t remember.
Version 3 threw me out, I had to find something else, and it was xfce.
No, I’m not going back to gnome 3, ever.
Mate, it is a possibility.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
> Been there, done that.
>
> Fortunately, you didn’t run into the “infinite caja” problem.
No, what is that?
> Once you get it set up, it seems to be a nice and usable desktop.
> Whether it is better than XFCE – that, you would have to decide for
> yourself. Given that choice, I would probably go with XFCE. But I can
> see some folk going the other way.
Well, my 13.2 test system (on vmplayer) is using mate for now. I don’t
intend to migrate my main desktop to it.
> However, I’ll stick to KDE for the present (except when experimenting
> with other desktops).
I use many kde applications. I just don’t like the entire kde4 desktop
experience, it confuses me. Same as gnome 3.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
On 2014-12-11 04:16, nrickert wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2682046 Wrote:
>>> Fortunately, you didn’t run into the “infinite caja” problem.
>>
>> No, what is that?
>
> ‘Bug 905808’ (https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905808)
> Comment #5 provides a good work-around.
Curious!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Here is a little something that looks at the differences of memory consumption in Linux desktop environments which takes a specific look at MATE and Xfce. I like what he has to say under Final Thoughts… Maybe someone else here would find this not only helpful but also humorous.
On 2014-12-12 18:36, dubois wrote:
>
> ‘Here’ (http://tinyurl.com/q72v7wy) is a little something that looks at
> the differences of memory consumption in Linux desktop environments
> which takes a specific look at MATE and Xfce. I like what he has to say
> under -Final Thoughts-… Maybe someone else here would find this not
> only helpful but also humorous.
It is an interesting article.
I specially agree with the «The RAM is there to be used. Is lighter
actually better?» paragraph.
Some of the comments pose interesting further questions: what would the
memory footprint be with some applications running? I could do that in
my mate/xfce setup. It is also a virtual setup.
Another doubt is the idea that some desktops (gnome?) adapt their memory
usage to adjust to the available ram. It would need to redo the tests
with more ram.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Have fun.